The Creative Awakening

CHAPTER 1

"WHERE DO THE CREATIVE COME FROM?"

Creativity in its basic form is a "primoral reaction" associated with the "flight response" of the "instinctive response system" which is used for emergency escape or near death survival situations. This response to extreme or threatening danger is brought out in modern man by "child abuse," psychological abuse, accidents, head traumas, and near death experiences. This is not to say that people with none of these extremes have no creativity.

It merely implies that the greatest extreme at the earliest age is the force that has the most significance on the personality of the creative child, and the earlier, the better.
The desperation caused by abuse is so repulsive to the soul that the soul protects itself in flight, or flights of fantasy, or flights of inventive creativity.

These turmoil’s caused by abuse and inconsiderate treatment, are the volcanoes of creativity waiting to erupt in all great artists. At last they are able to express the tempest in their tea pot of volatile emotions on canvas with paint or music, song or survival, with design.
When we respond creatively to need the psychological pattern is complete. Production usually becomes a proportion equivalent to the amount of pain endured by the sensitivity of the artist. When we respond with desire our hopes neutralize the natural response. The artist does not create from want. The artist creates from a need to create. To allow that need to unfold is the flowering of your self expression.

Without it, you are only typical. But, with it, you are exceptional. The unfolding is central to an individuals' realization of self knowing. This self knowing allows the real you, to really, express the real you. The hesitant, "thinking," self, ...the self, that believes that their apprehensions are true. The left brain analysis won't work with the feeling soul. The left brain shines in the halls of civilization and it's precepts of control over the individual. The rules are a trap to the creative thinker. Redundancy is boring. It must be different every time for the quick witted artist, whose, "reality", exists in the spontaneity of the "creative impulse." and not in the planned agenda of regimented learning of the conformed, but, "reasonable mind set," of the socially acceptable way of thinking. The creative mind is exceptional by comparison to the typical mind set of the narrow minded conservative thinker and non-creative person. This conflict of the spontaneous creative and the narrow minded rule follower is the creative person's dilemma. To be narrow, "want" security and creature comfort over freedom of mind and uninhibited access to primoral instinctive skills, only available to non-conformed primoral woman.